Senior Database DevOps Engineer

At 8x8 Inc. [Nasdaq:EGHT] we put communications at the heart of our business and build technology that allows people to connect anytime, anywhere they are in the world, and on any device. <a href="https://www.8x8.com/products?lever_via=&amp;utm_campaign=7012J000001RrUp&amp;utm_campaign=employee_advocacy&amp;utm_medium=social-media&amp;utm_medium=social-media-organic&amp;utm_source=advocates&amp;utm_source=None">XCaaS</a> - the 8x8 eXperience Communications Platform - brings together Employee and Customer Experience, enabling hybrid workforces across the globe to connect, collaborate, and delight customers, while providing businesses with real-time communications analytics, intelligence and unique insights.<br/>Learn more on our company website at <a href="http://www.8x8.com/">www.8x8.com</a> and follow our pages on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/8x8/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/8x8">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/8x8Inc/">Facebook</a>.<br/>8x8 is in the process of changing, modernizing and consolidating our infrastructure, systems and deployment practices. We are a global unified telecommunications company and as such we have a global infrastructure comprising multiple physical data centers and AWS/Cloud regions. We are looking for someone up to the challenge to help us bring order, consistency, high availability, and consistency across what we do on the data &amp; database management side. <br/>The ultimate goal is to help us build shared infrastructure services and automate everything from a data services point-of-view, whether it’s a database, NoSQL, or something that holds data to be consumed by others. We’re looking at migrating our infrastructure to Kubernetes so most everything we do should be done in Kubernetes as much as possible. As such we are looking for senior Data/DBA DevOps Engineers focused on this to help us. <h3>What you will do:</h3> <ul> <li>You’ll help drive, implement, support and maintain data services used by 8x8. At first, the focus will be on MySQL and Oracle however there is a strong desire to add other data platforms such as Hadoop, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, etc... Whatever else makes sense;</li><li>Define best practices, work with application teams on best practices and ensure they are followed. Teach others how to do the right things. Automate everything. Enable self-service as much as possible via automation so that application teams can do what they need without you, focus on the engineering aspect primarily;</li><li>Automate schema updates/migration via common pipelines and pattern to be used by application teams in their deployment processes;</li><li>Help drive migrating legacy data-platforms to new platforms. Both on-premise datacenters and in the Cloud;</li><li>Help automate the automated deployment, CI / CD of all of our services in a consistent and reliable way to production;</li><li>Be on call when needed to support the infrastructure and our systems.</li></ul> <h3>What you need to know:</h3> <ul> <li>Experience in MySQL and Oracle administration including design, installation, patching/upgrade, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting;</li><li>Experience with Cassandra, Kafka, DynamoDB would be a big plus;</li><li>Strong development/automation skills. Must be very comfortable with reading and writing Shell and  Python code;</li><li>Kubernetes and best practices around it are a big plus;</li><li>Experience automating from dev to production the push of services to production;</li><li>Terraform is a big plus.</li></ul> <h3>Benefits:</h3> <ul> <li>25 annual leave days. Additional vacation of 1 leave day for every 2 complete years of employment (max. up to 5 days);</li><li>Performance bonus, Christmas and Easter Allowance;</li><li>Private Pension, Group Life Insurance, Private Healthcare, Telecom allowance, Newborn allowance;</li><li>Flexible benefits online platform through Benefit Online;</li><li>Employee Stock Purchase Program.</li></ul>If you're experienced in relational and non-relational databases, have a passion for cloud technology and have an automation mindset, this role might be exactly what you're looking for! <br/>Expect to work with latest technology, learn more about cloud environments, Kubernetes and Terraform!<br/>#LI-IC1<br/>For a closer look into what life at 8x8 International and the Cluj office look like check out our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeat8x8_ro/">Instagram</a> page.<br/>8x8 believes diversity makes our company stronger which is why we are a proud equal opportunities employer and encourage all of our staff to bring their authentic selves to work. We believe in fairness and we believe in security so reserve the right to undertake background checks on anyone that we extend an employment offer to.For European Job Applicants our Job Applicant Privacy Notice can be found <a href="https://www.8x8.com/uk/job-applicant-privacy-notice">here</a>.